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GelderlandHybrid32 hours/week3-6months
A governmental organization is looking for a Quartermaster for Cabinet Affairs. The organization is growing and committed to its residents and entrepreneurs. This growth brings challenges, which reinforces the need for professionalizing Cabinet Affairs. Cabinet Affairs is part of the Executive Support team and plays an important role in supporting the administration. The assignment aims to stabilize, structure, and professionalize Cabinet Affairs until December 31, 2026.
What you will do.
- Analyze, structure, improve, and implement working methods within Cabinet Affairs.
- Map the current situation, including task and role distribution, ownership, planning, consultation structures, work processes, budgeting, collaboration, and vulnerabilities.
- Develop a concrete and actionable advice for the future organization of Cabinet Affairs.
- Implement agreed-upon improvements where decisions are made within the assignment period.
- Establish a workable system for financial overview and control.
- Compile a transferable dossier with analysis, improvement plan, realized improvements, working agreements, roles, responsibilities, planning, consultation structure, financial overview, and advice for a follow-up phase.
- Conduct interviews with involved employees and stakeholders.
- Analyze existing work processes and documents.
- Design work processes, formats, and consultation structures.
- Guide the implementation of improvement measures.
- Organize knowledge transfer and advise the team leader and involved parties.
- Temporarily perform substantive tasks where necessary to analyze, test, and improve processes.
Profile
- Demonstrable knowledge of daily cabinet practice, including:
- Representative and protocol support.
- Royal distinctions.
- Official receptions and administrative meetings.
- Commemorations and ceremonial activities.
- Administrative speeches and texts.
- Preparation and guidance of activities of administrators.
What they ask
- Completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level.
- Demonstrable work experience with the daily practice of an administrative cabinet or executive secretariat at a governmental organization.
- Demonstrable work experience with administrative communication, speechwriting, representation, or protocol support for an administrator within a governmental organization.
- Minimum 5 years of demonstrable work experience with setting up or improving work processes, role distribution, or consultation structures within a team or organizational unit, gained at a governmental organization and/or as an independent entrepreneur with ultimate responsibility.
- Proficiency in the Dutch language.
Preferences.
- Demonstrable work experience with mapping working methods, role distribution, planning, and budgeting of a team or organizational unit and advising managers or administrators on implemented improvement measures.
- Demonstrable work experience with setting up or improving work processes, consultation cycles, planning, and role distribution within an organization.
- Demonstrable work experience with preparing, managing, or clarifying budgets and monitoring expenditures, with ultimate responsibility.
- Demonstrable work experience with the daily practice of cabinet or executive support, including ceremonial and protocol meetings, representative activities, speechwriting, and communication around administrative events.
- Demonstrable work experience with establishing and maintaining collaboration between a small team and other organizational units, including early detection and resolution of collaboration bottlenecks.
- Demonstrable work experience within a governmental organization in a specific region.
Practical
- The contractor independently determines how the agreed results are achieved, organizes their own activities and planning, and is not hierarchically managed.
- Accountability is provided periodically on progress and results.
- The assignment does not constitute a structural filling of a regular position.
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